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Adam Scott is in a difficult spot. The 2013 Masters champion has played in 91 consecutive majors beginning with the 2001 Open Championship – a very impressive run of consistency. That streak is in jeopardy.
Scott, 43, picked a bad time to fall out of the Official World Golf Ranking top 60 last week. After missing the cut in the PGA Championship at Valhalla, Scott slipped from 56th to 62nd in the May 20 OWGR. Unfortunately for him, May 20 was the deadline for the USGA to offer exemptions into next month’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 to players in the top 60 not otherwise exempt. The OWGR climbers who pushed Scott out were top-six PGA finishers Bryson DeChambeau, Thomas Detry and Justin Rose.
The Australian still has a chance to make it to Pinehurst and extend his streak either via final qualifying (which he’s signed up for just in case) or getting back into the top 60 at the 11th-hour deadline on the Monday (June 10) before the U.S. Open.
“Yeah, I had a disappointing week at the PGA,” Scott said last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. “The state of my game had been pretty solid all around, but I struggled on the greens last week, and I have struggled on the greens the two previous weeks before that. So, that’s really held me back.”
To that end, Scott played at Colonial and is signed up for this week’s RBC Canadian Open. And to aid in his quest, Scott did not react to his struggling putting form by changing out his L.A.B. Golf Mezz.1 Proto putter but instead broke out a new set of irons at Colonial.
After the PGA miss, Scott ditched his mixed set of Srixon irons for a new custom mixed set of Miura CB-302 long irons and KM-700 mid- and short-irons. It’s a little more forgiving set than the more traditional blade Miura AS-1 irons that he gamed in 2023.
The KM-700 are one-piece forged irons that aim to combine the look of a traditional blade with cavity-back perimeter weighting designed to increase the sweet spot and forgiveness. GolfWRX.com reported Scott experimented with them briefly mid-tournament at last year’s Wyndham Championship but didn’t deploy them full-time until last week.
It’s a bold play at an important time of the season for Scott, who has missed only two cuts in 11 starts worldwide this season. He has been stuck in a rut of mostly middling finishes since February, causing the former world No. 1 to fall outside the top 50 for the first time since a brief slump in 2018.
“I think my game is in better shape than results are showing,” said Scott, who is the only golfer to win all four PGA Tour events in Texas including 2014 at Colonial when he was No. 1. “I know pretty much everyone who is not in the top 10 in the world is probably saying that, but that’s how I feel.”
Scott Michaux